AMERICAN LEAGUE Matsui's last-inning home run sinks Tribe

Cleveland starter Jason Davis was done in by the bullpen.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Hideki Matsui tried to forget about his first three at-bats before leading off the bottom of the ninth.
"I had groundballs three times; I didn't think about the groundballs," Matsui said through an interpreter. "I wanted to clear my head, so that's how I got a good result this time."
The result couldn't have been better as the former Japanese MVP hit New York's first game-ending homer of the season to give the Yankees a come-from-behind 5-4 victory over the Cleveland Indians on Thursday night.
Prodded
Matsui's teammates had to push him back onto the field to tip his helmet to the ecstatic crowd of 46,401.
"If you watch him, he doesn't get overly excited," Yankees manager Joe Torre said. "Where he came from, he was counted on quite a bit."
Matsui hit 332 home runs for the Yomiuri Giants in a 10-year career in Japan before signing a $21 million, three-year contract with New York.
He had given New York fans flashes of the ability that made him a three-time Japanese MVP. He hit a grand slam on opening day at Yankee Stadium but slumped in May.
His performance Thursday left him with a .299 average, 10 homers and 66 RBIs. He was the AL rookie of the month in June.
"You don't hit .350 by luck; he's a pretty good hitter," Derek Jeter said. "I think it's taken a while for him to adjust to the pitchers, but now I think he's doing it."
Matsui hit a 1-0 pitch from David Riske into the center-field bleachers. Jeter's two-run homer in the eighth off Riske (2-2) brought the Yankees back from a 4-2 deficit.
"Two pitches right down the middle, and they hit them," Riske said.
In control
New York couldn't generate much offense off Jason Davis for the second straight outing.
The right-hander scattered five hits in 71/3 innings but he gave up a tying two-run homer to Alfonso Soriano in the sixth after a leadoff walk to Raul Mondesi.
After Cleveland went back ahead 4-2 in the seventh, Mondesi doubled with one out in the eighth, ending Davis' night. Riske relieved and got Soriano to pop out, then gave up Jeter's sixth homer.
"I, basically, had the same gameplan as last week," Davis said. "I probably threw a little more offspeed stuff than my fastball because that's what was working better."
Davis gave up three runs, struck out six and walked two. On July 10, he held the Yankees to two runs in six-plus innings of a 3-2, 10-inning win.
Shane Spencer homered off Andy Pettitte in his first at-bat at Yankee Stadium since signing with the Indians as a free agent in the off-season.
Cleveland went up 2-0 in the fifth on John McDonald's single and Jhonny Peralta's triple over center fielder Bernie Williams. Cleveland could have scored more but third baseman Robin Ventura made a diving stab of a grounder, tagged Peralta, then threw to first for a double play.
Ventura made another tough play when he stabbed Peralta's sharp grounder down the line with one-out in the seventh and runners on first and third. A run scored to make it 4-2 but it stopped the rally. The Indians scored earlier in the inning when John McDonald singled past Jeter at shortstop with the infield in.